Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A shortened and stiffened left leg and other injuries he received in an accident in May, 1913, was worth $5,000 to Eugene T. Howard, according to the complaint Howard “filed against the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana railway company. Sight has been given to the left eye of David Kane, 9-month-old child of Mt and Mrs. Hermann Kane, of Gettysburg, Pa., through the grafting of the cornea of a pig’s eye to the child’s eyeball, according to a statement of physicians at a Baltimore hospital. Certain tests, they declare, have brought out this fact without a doubt. Popular belief that the farm owner who lives in the city and rents his farm is in the class with predacious plutocrats was given a severe jolt Saturday in a bulletin issued by the department of agriculture which shows that the average return from rented farms is but 3% per cent on the investment. The size of the farm seems to have no effect on the percentage. The drys of Richmond will contest the recent option election in the ground of Illegal voting. A special grand jury has been called. The wets won on the face of the returns by over 1,300. Richmond was the second largest city in the state to vote on the option proposition. Maddened by a red flag on the rear end of a freight train, a large bull gored John Wilmer, a farmer near Evansville, so severely Monday ’that death is probable. Another farmer, who happened to be passing the field, seized a fence rail and drove the bull away while it was trampling its owner. *I--- - '■ - f Order your rubber stamp today Order your calling cards at The Republican office. ■